Preserving eggs.



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IN VEN TOR A TTORNE Y WITNESSES:

V. CLAIREMONT.

PRESERVING EGGS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.14, 1.914.

LQ''YS. 1 Patented Feb.9,1915,

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Application tiled January i4, 1914. Serial No. 811,997.

' linn hot preservative solution and thenin i a cold solution to close the pores of the shell to make the same air-tight, and can then beY transferred to card-board fillers, without changing the relativewhich the eggs originally occupie in the 4card-'bowel filler.

p dn. theaccompanying drawing, Figure 1A is a side. ieyigoi one Fig.;l.1B' is av similar view of the remainder thereof Fig. 2 is an end view of the inachinegFig. 3 isf'a plan view, and Fig. 4 a

sectional view, cfa wire basket, inployed in iny invention; Fig. 5 aside view, ofv a movable egg case supporter.

Referring to the drawing," 1 indicates vertical angle-irons, secured at the bottom to Vtransverse angle-irons 2, and secured to longitudinalV angle-ironsl 3, transverse angleirons v.4; being secured-to` said vertical and longitudinal angle-irons at their oints of juncture. In boxes 6 on longitu inal angle-irons 3 is mounted a driving shaft 7, upon which are secured a pair of sprocket wheels 8, around which ass a pair of upperl sprocket chains 9, o the link-belt variety, which also pass in an endless path around yidle pairs of sprocket wheels 10. 11 12..and 13, said s rocket chains travel on horizontally exten ing members of the longitudinal angle-irons so .that they do not sag andthe are connected to each other by. ars 14 to pairs of which areV connected open-bottomed wire baskets .lili

transverse particularly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, sai wire baskets having compartments'holding in all three dozen eggs and beingexact diiplicates of the` card-board fillers as tolspacj,

inof eggs. Y y he wire baskets travel away from the driving wheel in ther lower course of their endless path, in which vcourse `they han downward and are empty, and they. .trave p l in the u er course thereof.. At apart of the mac e indicated by the letter a V ositions partments of thev wire basket.

portion of the machine g. l

in Fig. 1A they are filled by an operator with eggs in the following manner: Full cases of eggs are brought near to said part a of the machine on trucks, and with one side removed.

lhe operatorby means of a flat metal .sheet4 inserted vbeneath the loose card-board fiat bottom voit' the up er layer of three dozen eggs,'raisessaid l er and eggs vfrom the egg case, places this sheet, with the card-board bottoin and ller and eggs thereon, upon the empty wire basket while it is traveling along this part Vof the machine taking care that the compartments of the lcard-board Yfiller are immediately above the corresponding com-r He thenwithdraws'the fiat metal sheet and loose card board bottom from beneath the eggs, whereupon they drop into, the wire basket.

He repeats this operation with the succeed# y' lng card-board fillers andwire baskets. The wire basket, with the eggs therein, now travels on an ascending portion t of the path of the chains, and then, as shown at c, descends intoatank 17 containing a warm preservative solution which takes the chill off the eggs. Then, as shown at d, it descends out of said tank, and, as shown at e, descends. in a tank 18 containing hot preservative solution. These tanks 17 and lgare sup: ported upon the angle-irons, except when passing through tanks hereinafter described and may be heated in any desired manner, and I have herein illustrated such-heatin means by gas burners 19. The basket wit -eggs therein then, as shown at f, ascends out of said hot solution tank,.and, as shown at g, descends into, and ascends out of, a cold solution tank 21, which chills the eggs and closes the pores of their shells, and renders the saine air-tight. The basket, then, as' shown at li, descends and passes over aA re-1 volving brush 22, which brush removes from y the eggs the solution that is dripping oii. Said asket then asses between an uper discharging conduit 23 and a lower suction conduit 24 which conduits are connected to a blower 26. This blower dries the solution remainin .onthe eggs. The suction conduit 24 of the lower is made with a 'separator or. trap to take up the solution and insure only dry air going into the blower.

the solution. The basket then passes over a portion' of the path, shown at z', near which T he' separater or trap' drains into the supply tank ofy wire basket, so as to 'register 'therewith a card-boardI filler 27 and on this card-board filler he places a iiat metal sheet 28., The

basket is now approaching the driving wheels 8. On the driving shaft 7 are sev cured two outer and larger sprocket-.wheels around' which' pass a pair of 'sprocket chains 31, which also pass around pairs of sprocket wheels 32, 38, 34,35 and 36, these sprocket chains likewise traveln on the horizontally extending members o the longitudinal `angle-irons. These sprocket wheels are connected at suitable intervalsl transversely by bars 37, which bars uphold the flat `metal sheet, and therefore also the card-board filler, while they and the wire basket are making the turn from the upper l tothe lower course of the path. In so-turning, the eggs dro 'from the wire basket into the;oardboard wireihaske't is raised from oil the cardcard filler. by the chains r9, which, inmediately r after-passing the' driving sprocket wheels 8,

pass over the idle sprocket wheels 10.

The card-board filler 27, supported upon the hat metal sheet,y is conveyed by the chains 31 to the end of the machine remote from the driving wheel, at which end the card-board filler and metal sheet are gradually raised. They are then placed in an egg case 38 open at one side, (Fig. 5). Said egg case is supported on rollers 39 mounted in a frame-Ll-supported upon the top of a screw 42'screwed' through a collar 43 secured on the body of a truck 44, said frame having guide posts 46 lguided in vertical bearings 47 in said truck. When a filler has been deposited upon the bottom of each egg case onthe truck, the frame 41 is lowered through the distancev equal to theheight of one filler by means of a crank handle 48 on a shaft 49 having suitable bearings in the vehicle and having a bevel gear 51 meshing with a bevel .gear 52 on the collar 43. In 'this manner the fillers are successii'fely deposited in the egg cases on the top of one another until the egg cases 'are filled. Another-v truckA brought -.into position, andffthe metal sheets 28 are now removed from the e g cases-1on1 the vtruck and the egg cases may e removed gAn important feature of thisy inventin is the construction of the wire baskets, vespecially as to their depth. Each basket has circular wires around the tops of the several compartments for the individual eggs. .The

baskets should be one inch"high; if A'made' Aany shallower, a large egg will not be securely held therein when the basket is traveling on an inclined plane; endif the baskets werema-de deeper a short'egg will catch the edge of the upper wire and will er, and immediate] the..

from the truck for transportation o'r stornot roll out when going' around me turn at the end of the machine.v I claim 1. The combination of an endless traveler,

open-bottomed basket secured thereto having compartments, a tank into and from which said traveler and basket descend and ascend, and meansat a downward turn of said path for holding in registry with said basket a receptacle having compartments arranged similarly to those. ofthe basket 2.. lThe combination of an endless traveler, an open-bottomed basket secured thereto having compartments,a tank into and from which said traveler and basket descend 'and ascend, a receptacle having compartments arrangedto register with compartments of the basket, and an endless traveler arranged' to travel oaxially with a downward'tum of the path'of the irst-named traveleata sufiicient distance therefrom to maintain said receptacle in registry with said basket.

8L The combination of an endless traveler,

an yopen-bottomed basket secured thereto having compartments, a tank into and from which said traveler and basket descend and ascend, Ia receptacle having compartments arranged to register with the compartments of the basket, a loose-bottom for said recept'a'cle, and an endless traveler arranged to travel coaxially with a downward turn of the path of the first-named traveler `at a suiii'c ent distance therefrom to engage said' bottom and maintain said receptacle when vinverted in registry with said basket.

which .they F i 5. endless traveler having 'secured`- thereto at intervals and at points lintermediate o .their ends, wire baskets havin lcoin-I artrn'ents for eggs and substantial y vone inch inhei ht and comprising a `'circular' wire aromi the top of v'each'"compartment, and means in the pathV of said'traveler for treating said eggs. j 'u In testimony whereof I'have hereunto set mv hand in the presence of two subscribing willnesses- I L VICTOR CLAIREMONT.

Wtn'essest FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

' D. 1. Biemans. 

